In "People Get Ready," musicians, scholars, and journalists write
about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the
famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title.
The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that
infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the
years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the
avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic"
improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished
since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of
those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz
scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay
captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Other
pieces revise standard accounts of well-known jazz figures, such as
Duke Ellington, and lesser-known musicians, including Jeanne Lee;
delve into how money, class, space, and economics affect the
performance of experimental music; and take up the question of how
digital technology influences improvisation. "People Get Ready"
offers a vision for the future of jazz based on an appreciation of
the complexity of its past and the abundance of innovation in the
present.
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Contributors." Tamar Barzel, John Brackett, Douglas Ewart, Ajay
Heble, Vijay Iyer, Thomas King, Tracy McMullen, Paul D. Miller/DJ
Spooky, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Aldon
Lynn Nielsen, Eric Porter, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Jaribu
Shahid, Julie Dawn Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Alan Stanbridge, John
Szwed, Greg Tate, Scott Thomson, Rob Wallace, Ellen Waterman, Corey
Wilkes
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